In a new study of more than 50,000 Korean adolescents, those who used a smartphone for more than 4 hours per day…
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Research Highlights More than 4 hours of daily smartphone use associated with health risks for adolescents
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Thought Leaders Shaping the Future of PLOS Complex Systems: Interview with Editor-in-Chief Hocine Cherifi
My vision for this journal is to create the richest community possible around emerging tools and techniques that will shape the future of our world…
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Research Highlights Heart over head? Stages of the heart’s cycle affect neural responses
Optimal windows exist for action and perception during the 0.8 seconds of a heartbeat, according to research from PLOS Biology. The sequence…
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Early Career PLOS partners with the Global Young Academy to advance Open Science principles
Note: PLOS issued the following press release on Thursday, December 7, 2023 Halle/Saale, Germany, and San Francisco, United States – The Public…
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Einstein Awards program The Einstein Foundation Berlin announces its winners for Promoting Quality in Research
Note: PLOS is delighted to contribute to the global awareness of the Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research. By establishing…
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Open Data Results of PLOS experiments to increase sharing and discovery of research data
For PLOS, increasing data-sharing rates—and especially increasing the amount of data shared in a repository—is a high priority. Research data is a…
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Progress Update PLOS Complex Systems and PLOS Mental Health Now Open for Submissions!
Authors can now submit their work to PLOS Complex Systems and PLOS Mental Health. These two new Open Access journals bring expert multidisciplinary research to a broad audience of stakeholders…
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Open Access week Community Over Commercialization: OA Week 2023
Open Access Week is a special commemoration for us as one of the original co-founders of the event, along with SPARC and Students for…
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Open Science Scientific Writing, working together, and what’s next for scholarly publishing
Since 2015 Charla Lambert, Diversity Equity & Inclusion Officer for CSHL, and Stephen Matheson, Associate Editorial Director at PLOS have collaborated to…
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Open Science Measuring protocol sharing: are we on the right track?
Written by Marcel LaFlamme For almost a year, Open Science Indicators have offered the ability to measure three Open Science practices: data…
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post Your Zoom background might influence the first impression you make
In a new PLOS ONE study researchers found that participants tended to judge faces appearing against backgrounds featuring houseplants or bookcases as…
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Open Code A new Open Science Indicators dataset is here!
Written by Lauren Cadwallader, Lindsay Morton, and Iain Hrynaszkiewicz The latest Open Science Indicators (OSI) dataset has arrived! And with it, a…